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In “painted tongue” plants, wild type flowers are red, but many other flower col

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Question

In “painted tongue” plants, wild type flowers are red, but many other flower color variants have been isolated and some of them breed true, including blue and lavender. A geneticist finds that alleles of a single gene determine whether flowers are red, blue or lavender.

Results of some of her crosses are shown here:

True-breeding parents            F1 progeny                     F2 progeny (self-pollinating F1s)

red x blue                               All red                             102 red, 33 blue

Red x lavender                      All bronze                        84 bronze, 43 red, 41 lavender

a. Indicate the relationship between the alleles that display red x blue traits, and the relationship between the alleles that display red and lavender traits.

b. If the bronze F1 progeny of the red x lavender cross are crossed with true-breeding red plants, what progeny classes do you expect to find in what proportions?

Explanation / Answer

True-breeding parents            F1 progeny                     F2 progeny (self-pollinating F1s)

red x blue                               All red                             102 red, 33 blue

Red x lavender                      All bronze                        84 bronze, 43 red, 41 lavender

b. Ans-

Since red and lavender alleles are co-dominant, so we could write them as R red and R lav .

Let F1 progeny are R red R lav and true-breeding red R red R red

                                                         R red R lav            ×     R red R red

                                                               ½ R red R lav    ½ R red R red

So, the expected progeny will be half bronze and half red